A question of worth : economy, society and the quantification of human value /: economy, society and the quantification of human value. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christopher Steed.
• Authors: Steed, Chris
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction Setting the Scene -- Cameos of Yesterday; Chapter One How Did We Get Here? Quantification as a Way of Life; Part One The Social Transmission of Value; Chapter Two The Differentiation of Worth -- Life in Layers; Chapter Three The Distribution of Worth -- You Are What You Earn; Chapter Four The Demonstration of Worth -- You Are What You Own; Part Two Capitalism on the Couch; Chapter Five 1st Symptom: Private Lives and Performance Anxiety; Chapter Six 2nd Symptom: Power Imbalance -- the Sunny Side of the Street. Chapter Seven 3rd Symptom: Poverty and the Lumpen Proletariat Chapter Eight 4th Symptom: Pain -- (the Emotional Cost of Recession); Chapter Nine Excursus: Pathology in the City -- Tales of the Left Behind ; Chapter Ten 5th Symptom: Performativity and Education; Chapter Eleven 5th Symptom (continued): Performativity -- Workplace and Wards; Chapter Twelve 6th Symptom: Predatory Behaviour; Part Three Marching to a Different Drum; Chapter Thirteen Environments of Value; Chapter Fourteen Rebooting Capitalism; Chapter Fifteen Visions Seen: High-Value Society and the Goals of Politics. Postscript Through Thick and ThinNotes; Index.
• Publisher Details: London New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 242 pages)
• Subjects: 302; Social capital (Sociology); Human capital; Value; Economics -- Sociological aspects; PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology; Economics -- Sociological aspects; Human capital; Value; Social capital (Sociology); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857727510; 0857727516; 9780857729545; 0857729543
• Related ISBNs: 1784535915; 9781784535919
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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